>The only way to give it more time is to have more devs that are willing to commit their free time to it.

Or, you know, to pay devs to work on it on their work time.

That's how a great deal of progress for Linux/OSS came in mid-nineties to mid-00s, when companies from IBM and SUN to Red Hat and Novell, paid lots of programmers to work on critical parts (from the kernel and Apache, to Open Office and Gnome). When that dried off, pace slowed down for a lot of projects.